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Vine Street from near its northern terminus with the Broadway Hollywood Building prominently in view. The California Laundry was located on the street in 1920s. The Capitol Records Building, Capitol Tower, is located just north of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine. [5]
Hollywood and Vine was the second busiest intersection in the city, after Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue. [ 3 ] In the 1930s, radio station KFWB spoke of "broadcasting live from Hollywood and Vine," and newspaper columnists Hedda Hopper and Jimmie Fidler regularly touted the intersection's mystique.
The following diagram, based on an artistic map by the Hollywood Boulevard Association, and on newspaper advertisements [10] shows the major businesses along Hollywood Boulevard, from the intersection with Vine Street to the intersection with La Brea Avenue, in 1927 or 1928. There are a few relevant notes about major buildings added after 1928.
Broadway Hollywood Building (sometimes Broadway Building or Broadway Department Store Building) is a building in Los Angeles' Hollywood district. The building is situated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame monument area on the southwest corner of the intersection referred to as Hollywood and Vine, marking the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a landmark which consists of 2,800 [1] five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. The stars, the first of which were permanently installed in 1960, are monuments to achievement in ...
The theatre is located near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, on Vine Street between Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard, at the site of the former Robert Northam / Jacob Stern estate. The Beaux-Arts building was designed by architects Myron Hunt and H.C. Chambers and constructed in 1926–27.
Published in 1952, the map highlighted 63 spots. Among its points of interest was a lost mine in Texas where Jesuits had hidden silver bullion, an island off Central America that was home to the ...
Hollywood and Vine saw its own large-scale development: the $600 million W Hollywood Hotel and Residences, [30] which opened in 2010. [105] Gilbert Books was demolished to make way for this project, while the Stores (1632 N. Vine St.) building survived multiple eminent domain attempts and was not. [44]